All good so far. I then tried to burn the iso to cd not once but four times. I got errors 3 times from Brasero. I then tried to burn it with Xfburn which doesn’t do a verify so I did an md5sum on the contents of the cd against md5sum.txt on the disk and got 3 files with md5 errors.

This problem is similar to the one I had. However, when I do the following command I get a correct checksum for the disk even though the disk burning program ( in my case k3b) indicates an error.in the burn. Mount the cd in the drive.

dd if=/dev/cdrom | md5sum

Also the size is indicated to be 728 instead of 694 MB.

I have done three installs without any problem so long as I do not press "skip" when the install is near completion and wants to go online. I use static ip settings so just let it time out.

OK, I'm relatively new to Mint and Linux in general so there is a good chance that I'm doing something wrong ...

I downloaded the iso from another location on another computer (winXP). I used the WinMd5Sum to check the iso and and got the correct MD5. I used HP RecordNow to burn the CD with no errors. The CD appears to work just fine as a liveCD.

I went back to the iso and mounted it inside a VirtualBox Ubuntu 8.10. I repeated the md5 check on the files on the cd:

It seems to be not recognizing the CD media properly and giving checksum errors I believe....I just burnt an ISO with Xfburn and it went fine. I didn't keep the error log as I got frustrated and removed it all. I'm used to K3b but don't want all those libraries right now.

I tried to make a boot Linux DVD (no CDs available now, so I know it's a waste). I checked the BIOS and this USB DVD drive just won't boot the disks I made. I checked the BIOS of 3 computers and they are all set to allow a ROM drive to boot. NONE of them boot from two DVDs I made with two different ISO writers. This is weird...

Does anyone have any ideas about why the ROM drive is shown as (not present) in the one BIOS?It's telling me the BIOS can't even see the drive! But I can use it normally. Weird...I'll have to see if the other two BIOSes show it or not.

The ISO is the right files size, plus I did an MD5 checksum on it.It should be OK.